Zune HD coming to Canada
Microsoft’s Zune HD portable media player, formerly only available in the US and UK, will be coming to Canada in the near future. Although first released in 2009, the hardware has never been available here. It’s curious that Microsoft would choose 2011 to bring their media player here, since they’ve been focusing on Windows Phone for their mobility solution as of late, including integrating many of the Zune features into their new phone platform. While the Zune software on PCs and the Xbox allows for both movie and TV rentals and purchases, it’s been noticably absent of music options here.
If I had to take a guess, Microsoft wouldn’t be launching their portable media player in a region that didn’t have the full music store backing it up. This suggests that we’ll be getting Zune Music (and Zune Pass?) sometime soon. Early 2011 WAS the rough timeframe Microsoft’s Greg Milligan gave to us when we interviewed him back at X’10 in August.
[from Zune Insider via Engadget]
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